Donald Trump has released an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

This is one of those roughly 80/20 issues where an overwhelming majority of the country believes that only American citizens should be voting in American elections, as the law requires. So of course Democrats found a friendly federal judge to block the executive order.

The judge held that Democrats had shown that requiring proof of citizenship would hurt their voter registration efforts, and [quote] “make it more difficult for them to register voters who are likely to support Democratic candidates” [unquote].

In other words, voter integrity measures are likely to impose particular harm on the Democratic Party.

The ruling should make Democrats very uncomfortable. As they seek a way forward in the Trump era, perhaps they should be finding a way to win that is consistent with fair and legal elections.

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President Donald Trump just issued an executive order eliminating the use of “disparate impact” analysis in the use of racial and gender-oriented hiring and benefits. In so doing, he has moved us from an ethos of numerical equity to moral equality.

As Heather Mac Donald put it: Disparate Impact “has been used to invalidate literacy and numeracy standards for police officers and firemen, cognitive skills and basic knowledge tests for teachers, the use of SATs in college admissions, the use of grades for medical licensing exams….It has been used to eliminate prosecution for a large range of crimes…. among other things.

Disparate impact has been used to achieve results, give benefits, and prove racisim where no discriminatory intent has been alleged. Trump’s order restores true civil rights, and is a refreshing fix to the pitting of Americans against one another. In sum, Donald Trump ended the presumption that we are an implicitly biased or racist country with this order, and this will quell and heal increasing racial and gender-based resentments.

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President Donald Trump marks “100 days” in this second term.

He’s certainly been fast off the blocks.

But I want to weigh in for just a bit on the judges.

No: I’m not referring to the judiciary. I’m referring to the media: Those who have so wrong about Trump for so long it defies description.

Just about anyone in the world of journalism who is 30 and older has been pumping out "takes" on Donald Trump since he came down the escalator on June 16, 2015. I certainly have.

And they have been so wrong for so long … the collective sum of the sunk costs is enormous. Hundreds of millions of takes have been taken, predictions made and conclusions rendered. And: They’ve been wrong.

My recommendation is: Ignore them. Watch Trump. He could be transformational and successful.

There’s no question: He’s already an enormous figure in the nation’s history. He’s a president of consequence.

And: He still has over 1,300 days to go.

I’m Hugh Hewitt.

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